Performing Environments
Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
1st Edition
Published on 25. June 2014
XIII, 271 pages
978-1-137-32017-9 (ISBN)
Description
This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.
Reviews / Votes
"This impressive volume makes an important contribution to critical work on memory, history, and performing environments in the medieval and early modern periods. The studies interrogate the volume's theme from a range of perspectives, engaging a variety of different genres and media in illuminating ways." - Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College, USA
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XIII, 271 p.
File size
2,06 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-32017-9 (9781137320179)
DOI
10.1057/9781137320179
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
S. Bennett | M. Polito
Performing Environments
Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
Book
06/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia, Canada
Susan Bennett, Univeristy of Calgary, Canada
Susan Crover, University of British Columbia, Canada
Elisabeth Dutton, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Jim Ellis, University of Calgary, Canada
Helen Ostovich, McMaster University, Canada
Mary Polito, University of Calgary, Canada
Vimala C. Pasupathi, Hofstra University, USA
Joseph Rodriguez, University of Iowa, USA
Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK
Amy Scott, McGill University, Canada
Kim Solga, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Kevin Teo, Nagoya University, Japan
Clare Wright, University of Kent, UK
Content
Thinking Site: an Introduction, Susan Bennett and Mary Polito PART I: BUILDING FRAMEWORKS 1. 'The whole past, the whole time': Untimely Matter and the Playing Spaces of York, Patricia Badir 2. John Heywood, Henry, and Hampton Court Palace, Elisabeth Dutton 3. Playing The Changeling Architecturally, Kim Solga PART II: TRAVEL AND TYPOGRAPHY 4. Performing Folk at Kenilworth, Jim Ellis 5. Knights and Daze: The Place of Romance in the Queen's Men's Repertory, Helen Ostovich 6. Geographies of Performance in the Early Modern Midlands, Julie Sanders PART III: PSYCHIC SPACES 7. Mapping Guild Conflict in the York Passion Plays, Kevin Teo 8. Body, Site and Memory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Clare Wright 9. A Taste of High Life at Elvetham: Elizabethan Progresses and the Rural Consumption of Royal Neverwheres, Sarah Crover PART IV: CROSSING BOUNDARIES 10. With the grace off God at th'entryng off the Brigge: Crown versus Town and the Giant of London Bridge 11. Lydgate's Triumphal Entry of Henry VI, Joseph Rodriguez 12. Cymbeline and the Politics/Poetics of Mobility, Amy Scott 13. Locating The Valiant Scot, Vimala C. Pasupathi Bibliography Index
